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Friday, June 24, 2016

Can I Get A Whoop Whoop? Dreaming of New Projects...

Hi, all!It's Friday again, and we all know what that means - - - it's time to get our whoop whoop on! I hope you've all had whoop-worthy weeks - mine hasn't had much sewing, but it's been fun nonetheless. And I do have some pretty fabric to show off! So let's get started!

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If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, I'm sure you know that I spent last weekend plus a few days in New York City! Oh, we had such a fine time! The weather was just gorgeous...

...clear and sunny and pretty comfortable temperature-wise most of the time we were there. It made for really great pictures!

I particularly love this one of the Flatiron Building - I had never seen it from that particular angle, and it looks so thin there!

I was really glad that I had a day to wander around the Garment District, too! I love the iconic needle-and-button statue that lets you know that you have arrived in the Garment District - one of my favorite sights in NYC!

I visited some really great trim shops in NYC - buttons, trims, zippers, ribbons - everything you could possibly imagine can be found in these amazing stores!

But the best part of my day exploring came when I got to meet this lovely lady in real life for lunch! Chris blogs over at Made by ChrissieD, and lives in the NYC area. FYI, she travels all over the world and blogs about the fabric stores she find on her journeys. It's a great resource if you like to travel - her photography is fabulous, as you'll see if you wander around her blog. She sent me a great walking itinerary to follow when I was wandering around the garment district, and arranged for us to meet for lunch at a cute little restaurant. Then we wandered down to.....

...Purl Soho, which is such a fun shop, although much smaller than you would think from their website! Lots of beautiful yarns, Liberty of London fabric, and some of the prettiest linens I've seen in a long time. I did end up with a scrap bag with an interesting mix of pieces...

...and a bolt end of this beautiful linen! It's hard to tell from this picture, but the warp is a light teal blue and the woof is a beautiful bright yellow. In person, it's a beautiful shade of blue-ish green. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell in this picture!

I also picked up the bundle of solid fabrics in this picture...

...then returned to The City Quilter for the owls and foxes, which I had seen there earlier in the day. These fabrics are destined to become a baby quilt for one of my nieces!

And Thursday I got to spend the day with these lovelies - grandkids are the best!! We had a big old time wandering around Target and re-stocking Nana's pantry shelves.

So that's what's been going on in my little corner of the world this week - can I get a whoop whoop??

Oh Sarah...what fun! Thanks for sharing it with us...you make me excited for my own upcoming summer adventure travels. (I always love seeing your grands and chuckled at the thought of them restocking your pantry...they are good at that huh!)

Sounds like you had a fantastic trip! What I wonder is how New York Quilters manage their fabric stashes, with so many amazing shopping resources and limited square footage in NYC apartments. Would love to retrace your footsteps through the garment district, though. Did not even know that resource was "right around the corner" all those years we lived in New Jersey.

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Welcome to my blog and thanks for stopping by! I'm Sarah, and my crafting passion is quilting. My wonderful husband calls it an obsession! I quilt for our church's quilt ministry, which sprang up from humble beginnings in November 2009, when a group of non-quilters made a quilt for a young woman in our church diagnosed with cancer. Since that time, we've made and distributed more than 1,000 quilts..... so it looks to be a busy and growing ministry! If you have fabric stash weighing you down, please consider donating it to our quilt ministry! You can contact me via e-mail - we take all kinds of quilting fabrics and turn them into quilty comfort!!

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